Deuteronomy 10:8
Hebrew Bible
7 From there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a place of flowing streams. 8 At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, to stand before the Lord to serve him, and to formulate blessings in his name, as they do to this very day. 9 Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance among his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance just as the Lord your God told him.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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1 Kings 8:53
Hebrew Bible
52 “May you be attentive to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you. 53 After all, you separated them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, just as you, O Sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.” 54 When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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"... Within the Pentateuch, “separation” is also an important cultic term. Appropriate “separation” is to be made in relation to space (Exodus 26:33; compare Ezekiel 42:20), impurity (Leviticus 20:25), and people groups (Leviticus 20:24, 26; Numbers 8:14; 16:9; Deuteronomy 10:8). In fact, making correct divisions is viewed as being integral to the function of the priests who are commissioned “to separate between the holy and the common and between the unclean and the clean” (Leviticus 10:10). Thus, in Leviticus 11–15, the priests, and by extension the people as a whole, are to order their world through acts of separation. The conceptual parallel between God’s ordering of the cosmos and Israel’s (re)ordering of its environs is strengthened by the rare syntactical formulation involving לדב that links Genesis 1 to Leviticus 10:10 and 11:47 (see above). A correlation, or even analogy, between creation and cult is implied ..."
Harper, G. Geoffrey
"I Will Walk among You": The Rhetorical Function of Allusion to Genesis 1-3 in the Book of Leviticus
(pp. 193-194) Eisenbrauns, 2018
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